Incubator of Ideas was a self-directed residency at APT in which Ground Collective consolidated its identity. It was an astonishingly creative and collaborative experience, made the more potent by occurring between Covid lockdowns and restrictions. Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Tom Banks, Sam Hodge, Joost Gerritsen, Mike Sims, Mark Sowden, Matthew Swift, Marcia Teusink and Ana Vicente inhabited the gallery as a shared workshop for a week. The immediate area of Deptford Creek became a site of investigation and the gallery a place of research, scrutiny, and creative experiments. It gave the collective the opportunity to consolidate plans for Ground Work (taking place the following year) also at APT Gallery. It showcased the start of our partnership with Bonus Pastor Secondary School, highlighting artwork made by GCSE year 10 students engaged in a visual dialogue with Ground Collective.

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